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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Why save money when the cost of everything rises exponentially faster than my savings add up?

    My dad was an immigrant juat learning English. He biked to a mechanics shop and asked for a job. He got it at $8/hr. 3 months later some guy quit and the owner asked my dad to promote and now he was making $12/hr.

    He bought a 4 bed 2 bath 2 car garage home on a quarter acre for $180,000.

    My mom bought a similar home for $80,000 because of the bubble crash. In a very populated city, not rural. Fted Meyer (an everything store) was half a mile away.

    My parents bought their last home more than 10 years ago. It’s worth almost a million now. The mortgage is $2,000. To rent a studio apartment in the same area is $1,800.

    What’s there to save for?



  • Star@lemmy.blahaj.zonetocats@lemmy.worldLocked up
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    10 months ago

    Not a cat. But one of my chickens managed to tip a container over her. They were free-range, so I assumed something got a nice lunch and let the idea go.

    Like, one week later, I was cleaning up that part of farm and picked up the bucket to find my chicken. She was frazzled and I was flabbergasted.

    Like, 1. “Holy crap I shouldn’t procrastinate on tidying up”, 2. “Holy shit you’re alive”, and 3. “Holy shit, you’re alive after this long?!”

    She ate her own eggs which helped her out for a good chunk of the time. Lucky me :) (that I didn’t kill an animal through accidental abandonment 🤯)